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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” —Thomas Merton

• Host of Express Yourself! and uber volunteer, Brigitte Jia, was selected to play in an orchestra at Carnegie Hall. How did she get there? Yes, it is the old saying, “Practice, practice, practice,” Tune in to find out about art, ideas, and more.

What is art? Do you think of paintings, sculptures, animation, or museums? What about music, dance, acting, cooking, voice, gardening, speaking, writing, or martial arts? Culinary arts and performing arts are definitely forms of art. Hosts Brigitte Jia and Joven Hundal notice the small things influence what we all consider as art. Brigitte also reads from her chapter, The Gift of Art, from the forthcoming book, Be the Star You Are!® for Boomers and Millennials. Joven finds that history and art are connected. Brigitte recounts her phenomenal and unique experiences playing violin with Davies Symphony, touring in the UK and Chicago, playing alongside Ariel Horowitz and Amos Yang, recording for Torchlight, playing at Carnegie Hall, and more exciting artistic adventures.

Appreciate art for what it is: creativity, skill, and expression. Yes, Express Yourself!

Express Yourself! Teen Radio is produced by Cynthia Brian of Starstyle Productions, llc as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are! charity. To make a tax-deductible donation to keep this positive youth programming broadcasting weekly to international audiences, visit http://www.bethestaryouare.org. Dare to care!

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Teens talk and the world listens every Tuesday NOON PT on the Voice America Kids Network. Produced by StarStyle® Productions, LLC and Cynthia Brian, these young adults know how to rock and express their unique views. Join the fun!

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

What is it like to live in a haunted house? What if that house was actually a medieval prison that housed witches? Richard Estep and Vanessa Mitchell talk about their book, Spirits of the Cage with hosts Brigitte Jia and Katie Choo covering the haunting of one of England’s oldest prisons for witches where Vanessa lived for three years until she couldn’t take it any longer and Richard’s subsequent investigation into the paranormal activities. Trends without ends reporter, Jack Pawlakos looks into the adventures of ghosting, ghost ships, and the tracking via smarkphones and apps of the paranormal. Brigitte wraps the hour with an Art Attack focusing on ghosts and spirits in art.

BIO: Richard Estep has been a paranormal investigator 23 years, researching haunted locations on both sides of the Atlantic. Richard has appeared on the Destination America TV show “Haunted Case FIles.” He is the author of several non-fiction paranormal books. He makes his living as a paramedic and clinical educator. He also volunteers as a firefighter-paramedic, teaches EMT, and paramedic students at three different medical training establishments, and serves as an on-call communications technician/paramedic on a federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). In the tiny amount of free time that does not involve paranormal investigation and writing about it, he is an unabashed geek, with a particular bias towards all things Star Wars. He is a collector and reader of books. Richard lives in colorful Colorado with his wife, dog, and far too many black cats. www.richardestep.net

Bio for Vanessa Mitchell: Vanessa Mitchell is a mother of 2 who owns the cage medieval prison England’s most haunted house. She is the co author of Spirits of The Cage.

Express Yourself! Teen Radio is produced by Cynthia Brian of Starstyle Productions, llc as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are! charity. To make a tax-deductible donation to keep this positive youth programming broadcasting weekly to international audiences, visit http://www.bethestaryouare.org/donate.htm. Dare to care!

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Teens talk and the world listens every Tuesday NOON PT on the Voice America Kids Network. Produced by StarStyle® Productions, LLC and Cynthia Brian, these young adults know how to rock and express their unique views. Join the fun!

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ― Herman Melville

What does it mean to be connected? In today’s highly contentious and divided political climate, there’s an urgent need for people of all faiths and cultures to clarify, communicate, connect, and live our values into action. Hosts Zahra Hasanian and Brigitte Jia interview author of the new book, The Forever Letter, Rabbi Elana Zaiman who works to bridge and heal the values divide by helping people of all faiths and cultures to acknowledge, celebrate, and communicate their values, wisdom and love in powerful and lasting ways with the people who matter to them most. Zahra offers insights on how hope and connecting are healing partners and Brigitte takes music to a new level to connect the world.

BIO: Elana Zaiman, the first woman rabbi from a family spanning six generations of rabbis, has spent her life bringing people together. She is the chaplain at The Summit at First Hill retirement community in Seattle and is a certified Wise Aging instructor. Elana is the Ethics and Spirituality writer at LivFun, a publication for Leisure Care retirement facilities in ten states. As a volunteer, Elana is a co-partner in Seattle Sewing Circles, bringing together Jews, Muslims, and Christians to create feminine hygiene kits for girls in Cameroon, Africa. Elana speaks and teaches regularly at synagogues, churches, interfaith gatherings, social service agencies, geriatric residencies, women’s organizations, and elder-law, healthcare, and financial and estate planning conferences. Over the years, Elana has served as a rabbi at synagogues around the country, Prior to her ordination, she was the Adult Program Associate at Brandeis-Bardin Institute. www.ElanaZaiman.com

Express Yourself! Teen Radio is produced by Cynthia Brian of Starstyle Productions, llc as an outreach program of Be the Star You Are! charity. To make a tax-deductible donation to keep this positive youth programming broadcasting weekly to international audiences, visit http://www.bethestaryouare.org/donate.htm. Dare to care!

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Hear about the top 5 shows for 2016. What were they about? Who were the guests? We want to hear from you why you loved these shows. What would you like to hear more of and who would you like us to have again.

Captivated by music since age 5, he trained as a youth, graduated with a Bachelorâs degree in music, & began performing worldwide with Brazilian master Sergio Mendes by age 23. His career soared & he experienced the power of music to affect the energy of the human spirit around the world.

Today the challenges in leadership, collaboration, & time are huge. Using music as a lens to view business, he created âTune Up To Success!â, âBusiness Harmonicsâ and âHuman Harmonics,â peak performance systems to enhance leadership, innovation & collaboration, with rave reviews from Apple, NASA, Citi.

Your leadership score isnât a number. Itâs the result of your ability to influence the melody, harmony, & rhythm of your organization to create great music â the score. Can you use actual music to learn how to do this? Yes! Want to know how to unlock peopleâs greatest potential to create your score? Join Cheryl Esposito & Freddie Ravel Friday 7/24/15 @ 10 a.m. on ‘Leading Conversations‘ to âTune Up To Success!â

With eloquence, warmth and authenticity, Katina Makris shares practical health information and inspirational personal experience on chronic Lyme disease and auto immune recovery. Her calling is to promote Lyme disease awareness, yet her passion is to ignite the body-mind-spirit healing pathway available in all of us. The personally afflicted, their caregivers and healthy people benefit from Katinaâs powerful message of hope. If you or someone you know has a debilitating chronic disease of any kind,

Katina I. Makris, CCH, CIH has worked in natural health care for 30 years, as a Classical Homeopath and Intuitive Healer. Award winning author, Keynote speaker, worldwide renowned host of âLyme Light Radioâ, former newspaper health columnist, and past board member of The Council for Homeopathic Certification., Katina is a dynamic, well loved Natural Health Care educator and Inspirational Healer. She is a co-director of the famed Ticked OFF Music Fests. Katina travels the world, offering healing skills and hope in the midst of an exploding public health care crisis. Currently, she is on a nationwide tour with her timely memoir and Lyme guide, âOut of the Woods, Healing Lyme Disease, Body, Mind & Spiritâ, an award finalist for Best Book in Alternative Health with USA Book News. Katina is a graduate of Duke University and The Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing. www.KatinaMakris.com

Join Nancy Gentle Boudrie and her remarkable guest internationally acclaimed director and artist Christian Wolfe as they explore the epiphany of living life serving a divine purpose to assist humanity. They will discuss rediscovering and reawakening the power within to make a global change. Christian’s latest and largest project, The Messengers Event, offers a multi-sensory experience fusing art and music. The event is offering hope and inspiration and a call for mankind to integrate divinity, and expand its reach to all the charitable needs of the world. There will be a Q&A portion where we will open the phone lines to your questions by calling, 1-888-346-9141. Gentle Power Radio airs every Tuesday at 3pm ET and 12pm PT.

Bob Sima is to music what Wayne Dyer, Don Miguel Ruiz, and Eckhart Tolle are to books and Rumi, Hafiz, and David Whyte are to poetry. He has been called âEckhart Tolle with a guitar.â He is a âTransformational Troubadour,â a way-shower, a guide, an awakener, and a musical mystic. Through the medium of melody and message, he leads listeners to an expanded consciousness, deeper sense of connection, and inner peace and purpose. His music bridges daily life and soul consciousness, the eternal with the now. He delivers instantly accessible songs that take up residence and resonance in your soul. Don’t miss this episode of The Self Improvement Show. And, yes, we WILL play some of his amazing music.